TomWheeler

Tom Wheeler's Netbeans Dream Team Page

My name is Tom Wheeler. I am a Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc. (OCI), currently doing consulting work at Boeing. I live in the St. Louis, Missouri, USA area. In addition to software development, I am also an author and instructor, and I frequently present at technical conferences.

I have been a fan of open source software since I started running Linux in 1995. I used NetBeans for the first time just after it became open source in 2000, but did not become active in the community until I began developing with the NetBeans Platform a few years ago. Since then I have tried to help create examples, answer questions and write FAQ entries so that it will be easier for others to learn about the NetBeans platform. I am a member of the NetBeans Dream Team. I've served three terms on the NetBeans governance board and am now serving a fourth term.

Here is my NetBeans TODO list. I plan to work on as many of these as my spare time allows (note that I have not filed RFEs for many of them, pending some investigation into whether issues already exist or someone else is already working on them):

Create module to increase/decrease font size (of editor) with a single keystroke, for presentations with a live demo component (maybe this will also resolve IZ 112787)

Create module to delete userdir when it's locked (e.g. when a platform app launched from the IDE crashes) - NOTE: Jesse says this is already implemented

Create module to cycle through slashes/dashes/periods in active selection, for easier editing of layer files. (Sandip Chitale has an unmaintained linetools module for this)

Make the "New Library Module" wizard guess the code name base by examining the JAR file(s) being added (Jesse said it should do so already, though maybe the algorithm needs work).

Patch equals/hashcode generator UI keep checkboxes in sync; using a different set of fields for equals() than for hashCode() is probably a mistake and it shouldn't encourage you to do that as it does now